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Category: Utilities

Selection of utilities

rgx – terminal regex tester

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

rgx is a terminal application for building, testing, and debugging regular expressions.

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Selection of utilities

t2sz – compresses a file into a seekable zstd

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

t2sz compresses a file into a seekable zstd, splitting the file into multiple frames.

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Bluetooth

btlescan – terminal UI for scanning Bluetooth Low Energy devices

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

btlescan is a cross-platform terminal UI for scanning Bluetooth Low Energy devices, inspecting GATT services and characteristics.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: file

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

file determines the type of data contained in a file by examining its contents rather than relying on filename extensions.

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batctl – battery charge threshold manager for Linux laptops

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, TUI, Utilities

batctl is a terminal utility for setting laptop battery charging thresholds, checking battery health and preserving limits across reboots.

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Diff Tools

dead-ringer – interactive binary diff utility

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dead-ringer is an interactive binary diff utility with hexadecimal and ASCII views, search, visual selection and OSC 52 clipboard copying.

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SSD

diskard – interactive terminal disk usage analyzer

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

diskard is a terminal disk usage analyzer with multithreaded scanning, file-extension breakdowns, file counts and trash support.

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Password manager

kyp – keep your passwords

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

kyp is a terminal password manager that stores credentials in an encrypted SQLite database on the local machine.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

ccase – convert between string cases

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ccase is a command-line utility for converting strings between many naming and word-separation styles.

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wooz – zoom / magnifier utility for Wayland compositors

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

wooz is a Wayland magnifier utility that provides a zoomed view of the screen with mouse and keyboard controls.

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Selection of utilities

Trolley – run terminal apps anywhere

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Trolley lets you bundle any TUI executable together with a terminal emulator runtime. Distribute TUI applications to non-technical users.

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Dictionary Tools

charcoal – command line dictionary

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

charcoal is a Rust command-line dictionary with colourised output, optional speech and caching of dictionary text and audio

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Selection of utilities

TRCC Linux – port of the Thermalright LCD Control Center

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

TRCC Linux is a Linux application for controlling and customizing supported Thermalright LCD displays and LED segment displays

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Milky Way

PhaseFetch – calculate the current moon phase with artwork

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

PhaseFetch is a Bash script that calculates the current moon phase and writes matching artwork to a file for use in terminal environments.

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Software

Aurora – modern, native GUI package manager for Arch Linux

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Aurora is a graphical package manager for Arch Linux designed to provide a modern interface.

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Gem of the Week

Ratarmount – access large archives as a filesystem

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

Ratarmount collects all file positions inside a TAR so that it can easily jump to and read from any file without extracting it

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Tools that help you

Linux Command Library – command reference and cheat sheets

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, TUI, Utilities

Linux Command Library is a reference application that helps users discover and learn Linux commands through formatted manual pages, and more.

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Selection of utilities

Foondot – very simple dotfile sync utility

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Foondot is a utility that manages symlinks from a local repository, linking files and folders according to a configuration file.

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Selection of utilities

upkeep – Arch TUI helper

March 15, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

upkeep is a terminal user interface (TUI) for managing Arch Linux system updates, installed packages, orphans, and rebuild issues.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

wordplay – anagram finder

March 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wordplay is a command-line anagram finder. It takes an input string and searches a supplied word list to generate valid anagrams.

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